Hack-a-Thon Hack-a-Thon February 25, 2015 Advanced HPC Training: Code Tuning Hack-a-Thon Wednesday, February 25 NERSC Oakland Scientific Facility 415 20th Street, Oakland, CA Online at: https://nersc-training.webex.com/ NERSC is offering a one-day "Hack-A-Thon" on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 as part of the annual meeting of the NERSC Users Group. The event will be held at NERSC's Oakland Scientific Facility in Oakland, CA. It will also be available remotely for those who want to follow

9 Bright Ideas OBJECTIVES Students will gain an understanding of the energy used to operate lights. SUMMARY Given information on lighting types, students will compute how much electricity and money it takes to provide lights in their homes and classrooms. GROUPS Divide students equally into as many groups as you have sample lighting types. TIME 30 MIN. SUBJECTS Math, science, critical thinking. VOCABULARY Compact fluorescent, lumen, watt, efficient. MATERIALS Copies of lighting survey sheet

T. Kiehl, M. W. Moncrieff, J. J. Hack, and W. Grabowski National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO 80307-3000 V. Ramaswamy Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Princeton, NJ Introduction Inclusion of Ice Radiative Properties in the Hierarchy of Models Improved parameterization of clouds for general circulation models will require both ARM observations and the use of more detailed cloud models. We have adopted a parallel implementation approach to improve cloud parameterizations by

Thinking about entering the Apps for Energy competition? Not sure where to start? Here’s a list of app ideas submitted by readers of Energy.gov, energy sector experts, and Energy Department employees. A big thank you to all the people who took time to submit ideas!

TeachersScience Project Ideas Outreach Home Room News Publications Traditional Knowledge Kiosks Barrow, Alaska Tropical Western Pacific Site Tours Contacts Students Study Hall About ARM Global Warming FAQ Just for Fun Meet our Friends Cool Sites Teachers Teachers' Toolbox Lesson Plans Science Project Ideas Do changes in air pressure affect the weather? What is the relationship between air pressure and temperature? Monitor the weather forecast data from the web to find the answer. How does the

Day Data Day NERSC is hosting a series of data-centric events, called Data Day. Data Day 2016 August 22nd - 23rd, 2016 Wang Hall (LBNL Building 59) and Building 50 AuditoriumLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory This summer, NERSC will host a brand new, data-centric event, Data Day. The main event will take place on August 22, followed by a half-day hackathon on August 23. The goal: to bring together researchers who use, or are interested in using, NERSC systems for data-intensive work. On

CEMI Days are an important channel of engagement between DOE and the manufacturing industry to identify challenges and opportunities for increasing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness. CEMI Days that are held at manufacturing companies’ facilities can include tours of R&D operations or other points of interest determined by the host company.

Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans, the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared that Decoration Day should be observed on May 30. It is believed that date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country.

Prince Kuhio Day is an official State of Hawaii holiday and it honors Hawaiian Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Piikoi. It takes place every year on March 26, the birthday of the prince. Prince Kuhio was born on March 26, 1871 and he died on January 7, 1922.

| Department of Energy Crowdsourcing Site Advances Building Technologies Ideas to the Market ORNL Crowdsourcing Site Advances Building Technologies Ideas to the Market September 24, 2015 - 4:09pm Addthis James White, Rod Stucker and James Rowland, winners of DOE's inaugural Buildings Crowdsourcing Community Campaign, joined GE Applianceâs Venkat Venkatakrishnan and DOE Assistant Secretary David Danielson for a panel discussion at EERE Industry Day at ORNL. Image: ORNL. James White, Rod

Department of Energy Imagine Tomorrow: Student Competition Leads to Innovative Biofuel Ideas Imagine Tomorrow: Student Competition Leads to Innovative Biofuel Ideas May 28, 2014 - 9:20am Addthis Watch the video above to learn more about the Imagine Tomorrow competition. Leslie Ovard Bioenergy Policy Specialist, Bioenergy Technologies Office Can you imagine if solar panels could be used to grow algae for fuel? Or if your morning coffee could not only get your day started, but also serve as a

The midnight audit provides valuable insight toward identifying opportunities to reduce energy consumption—insight that can be easily overlooked during the normal (daytime) energy auditing process. The purpose of the midnight audit is to observe after-hour operation with the mindset of seeking ways to further minimize energy consumption during the unoccupied mode and minimize energy waste by reducing unnecessary operation. The midnight audit should be used to verify that equipment is off when it is supposed to be, or operating in set-back mode when applicable. Even a facility that operates 2 shifts per day, 5 days per week experiences fewer annual hours in occupied mode than it does during unoccupied mode. Minimizing energy loads during unoccupied hours can save significant energy, which is why the midnight audit is an Idea That Works.

Ideas for Mentoring Program Activities * Both mentee and mentor review their resume/curriculum vitae with each other to create a foundation of what they have done, where they have been and where they would like to go. * Take your favorite personality or behavioral assessment with your mentee/mentor to learn how best to work and communicate with each other. * Attend a professional meeting together and introduce mentee/mentor to other professionals in the field. * Schedule lunch or coffee to

The DOE Clean Energy Application Centers were launched with a goal of focusing on important aspects of our nation’s energy supply including Efficiency, Reliability and Resiliency. Clean Energy solutions based on Combined Heat & Power (CHP), District Energy and Waste Heat Recovery are at the core of ensuring a reliable and efficient energy infrastructure for campuses, communities, and industry and public enterprises across the country. IDEA members which include colleges and universities, hospitals, airports, downtown utilities as well as manufacturers, suppliers and service providers have long-standing expertise in the planning, design, construction and operations of Clean Energy systems. They represent an established base of successful projects and systems at scale and serve important and critical energy loads. They also offer experience, lessons learned and best practices which are of immense value to the sustained growth of the Clean Energy sector. IDEA has been able to leverage the funds from the project award to raise the visibility, improve the understanding and increase deployment CHP, District Energy and Waste Heat Recovery solutions across the regions of our nation, in collaboration with the regional CEAC’s. On August 30, 2012, President Obama signed an Executive Order to accelerate investments in industrial energy efficiency (EE), including CHP and set a national goal of 40 GW of new CHP installation over the next decade IDEA is pleased to have been able to support this Executive Order in a variety of ways including raising awareness of the goal through educational workshops and Conferences and recognizing the installation of large scale CHP and district energy systems A supporting key area of collaboration has involved IDEA providing technical assistance on District Energy/CHP project screenings and feasibility to the CEAC’s for multi building, multi-use projects. The award was instrumental in the development of a first-order screening

Ideas Are Scary Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Ideas Are Scary Ideas are scary, messy, and fragile, but under the proper care, they become something beautiful. GE is a place where ideas are nurtured and brought to life through innovations that make the world better. You Might Also Like

Day » Data Day 2016 Data Day 2016 August 22nd - 23rd, 2016 Wang Hall (LBNL Building 59) and Building 50 Auditorium Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory This summer, NERSC will host a brand new, data-centric event, Data Day. The main event will take place on August 22, followed by a half-day hackathon on August 23. The goal: to bring together researchers who use, or are interested in using, NERSC systems for data-intensive work. On August 22, a full day of talks and tutorials will get you up

Research Day Postdoc Research Day Point your career towards Los Alamos Lab: work with the best minds on the planet in an inclusive environment that is rich in intellectual vitality and opportunities for growth. Contact Postdoc Program Office Email Postdoc Research Day 2016 At Postdoc Research Day 2016, 70 postdocs showcased their research. The Judging Panel included Dr. Thomas Bowles, former Chief Scientist and Chief Science Officer Los Alamos National Laboratory; Dr. Kim Budil, the Vice

5 September 21, 2010 LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, September 21, 2010-Los Alamos National Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum is participating for the sixth year in the Smithsonian's Museum Day on Saturday, September 25. Sponsored by Smithsonian Media, Museum Day is a day when participating museums and cultural institutions across the nation open their doors free of charge to anyone presenting a Smithsonian Museum Day ticket. "The Bradbury Science Museum already has a free-admission policy, but

Venture Acceleration Fund ideas Lab seeks ideas for Venture Acceleration Fund Projects selected will support LANL's core missions and provide a significant opportunity for new company formation or growth in New Mexico. April 20, 2009 Los Alamos National Laboratory sits on top of a once-remote mesa in northern New Mexico with the Jemez mountains as a backdrop to research and innovation covering multi-disciplines from bioscience, sustainable energy sources, to plasma physics and new materials. Los

Moving an Idea to the Marketplace Moving an Idea to the Marketplace Los Alamos chemists Andrew Sutton and Mylan Sykora were asked what they've learned from their experiences with DisrupTECH and Innovate NM. August 1, 2016 Los Alamos chemists Los Alamos chemists Andrew Sutton and Mylan Sykora had a chance to present their innovation to investors. Contact Mariann Johnston Los Alamos National Laboratory Email Recently Andrew Sutton and Mylan Sykora, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists in the

What the Hack! Leveraging the crowd to solve some of the world's toughest healthcare challenges Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) What the Hack! Leveraging the crowd to solve some of the world's toughest healthcare challenges Vikram Damodaran 2015.07.23 Healthcare is a niche sector and therefore innovation

April 22, 2016 is the forty-sixth anniversary of the founding of Earth Day which marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. The Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security (AU) is leading DOE’s coordinated Earth Day celebrations at the Forrestal DOE Headquarters Building in Washington, D.C.

The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims.

On September 23-24, 2015 the inaugural EERE Industry Day was held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to foster relationships and encourage dialog among researchers, industry representatives, and U.S. Department of Energy representatives.

he Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies and Vehicle Technologies Offices (BETO and VTO) are co-hosting a stakeholder Listening Day to help shape a major new Sustainable Transportation initiative: Co-optimization of Fuels and Engines (Optima).

IT Job Shadow Day aims to educate and engage high school students in a variety of information technology careers within the federal government. Participating students will shadow federal technology professionals at federal workplaces.

Respecting Privacy, Safeguarding Data and Enabling Trust is the theme for Data Privacy Day (DPD), an international effort held annually on January 28 to create awareness about the importance of privacy and protecting personal information.

Lab celebrates Earth Day Community Connections: Your link to news and opportunities from Los Alamos National Laboratory Latest Issue: September 1, 2016 all issues All Issues » submit Lab celebrates Earth Day Multiple activities focus on environmental protection. May 1, 2013 A team from Industrial Hygiene and Safety during the Great Garbage Grab A team from Industrial Hygiene and Safety during the Great Garbage Grab. Contact Editor Linda Anderman Email Community Programs Office Kurt Steinhaus

Dawn Levy About Us Dawn Levy - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Dawn Levy is a science writer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the Department of Energy's 17 National Laboratories. She covers physics, chemistry and materials science. Most Recent This New Plastic Is 50% Renewable April 18

Day 1 at 2014 ARPA-E Innovation Summit Day 1 at 2014 ARPA-E Innovation Summit February 24, 2014 - 6:52pm Addthis Through its PETRO program, ARPA-E is working to develop non-food crops that directly

Bioenergy, the use of agricultural waste and forestry byproducts to generate heat and energy, will be celebrated during the third annual National Bioenergy Day on October 22, 2014. This is an opportunity to showcase bioenergy facilities and the bioenergy supply chain around the United States. The Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) will celebrate National Bioenergy Day with an educational display about the bioenergy supply chain and the bioeconomy in the lobby of the Energy Department’s Forrestal building in downtown Washington, D.C.

Venture acceleration fund Lab seeks ideas for Venture Acceleration Fund The fund will provide investments of up to $100,000 to facilitate projects with regional entrepreneurs, companies, investors, or strategic partners. July 9, 2008 Los Alamos National Laboratory sits on top of a once-remote mesa in northern New Mexico with the Jemez mountains as a backdrop to research and innovation covering multi-disciplines from bioscience, sustainable energy sources, to plasma physics and new materials. Los

Despite the apparent conceptual boundaries of scientific fields, a formal description for their evolution is lacking. Here we describe a novel approach to study the dynamics and evolution of scientific fields using a network-based analysis. We build an idea network consisting of American Physical Society PACS numbers as nodes representing scientific concepts. Two PACS numbers are linked if there exist publications that reference them simultaneously. We locate scientific fields using Cfinder, an overlapping community finding algorithm, and describe the time evolution of these fields using a community evolution method over the course of 1985-2006. The communities we identify map to known scientific fields, and their age strongly depends on t.heir size, impact and activity. Our analysis further suggests that communities that redefine themselves by merging and creating new groups of ideas tend to have more fitness as measured by the impact per paper, and hence communities with a higher fitness tend to be short-lived. The described approach to quantify the evolution of ideas may be relevant in making predictions about the future of science and how to guide its development.

INNOVATION Our technology evolves from day to day, constantly drawing us forward. Find out what we're working on and what's on the horizon. I Want to See Game-Changing Technology Work & Life Cool Science STEM Education Most Popular Shuffle Information for Me Game-Changing Technology Work & Life Cool Science STEM Education Most Popular Shuffle What Works: Mark Little on Green Energy Innovations » Oil & Gas Ensuring access to energy for generations to come. National Inventors Day

In this paper we review the essence of the Grid-Idea. Specifically, we explore the changing definition of the Grid and follow its evolution over the past decade. This evolution is motivated by the gradual expansion of management issues that must be addressed to make production Grids a reality and to meet user requirements for increased functionality. Additionally, we focus on the evolutionary path of the Globus Toolkit taken to address the increasing needs of the community. We also discuss the evolutionary inclusion of commodity technologies as illustrated by the Java Commodity Grid Project.

An energetic crowd of hundreds of leaders throughout the solar community gathered yesterday in southern California to kick off SunShot’s four-day summit and work together to generate ideas to tackle the SunShot grand challenge to make solar energy cost competitive in the United States by 2020.

The population dynamics underlying the diffusion of ideas hold many qualitative similarities to those involved in the spread of infections. In spite of much suggestive evidence this analogy is hardly ever quantified in useful ways. The standard benefit of modeling epidemics is the ability to estimate quantitatively population average parameters, such as interpersonal contact rates, incubation times, duration of infectious periods, etc. In most cases such quantities generalize naturally to the spread of ideas and provide a simple means of quantifying sociological and behavioral patterns. Here we apply several paradigmatic models of epidemics to empirical data on the advent and spread of Feynman diagrams through the theoretical physics communities of the USA, Japan, and the USSR in the period immediately after World War II. This test case has the advantage of having been studied historically in great detail, which allows validation of our results. We estimate the effectiveness of adoption of the idea in the three communities and find values for parameters reflecting both intentional social organization and long lifetimes for the idea. These features are probably general characteristics of the spread of ideas, but not of common epidemics.

On January 14--15, 1999, Sandia National Laboratories sponsored Deans Day, a conference for the Deans of Engineering and other executive-level representatives from 29 invited universities. Through breakout sessions and a wrap-up discussion, university and Sandia participants identified activities to further develop their strategic relationships. The four primary activities are: (A) concentrate joint efforts on current and future research strengths and needs; (B) attract the best students (at all grade levels) to science and engineering; (C) promote awareness of the need for and work together to influence a national science and technology R and D policy; and (D) enable the universities and Sandia to be true allies, jointly pursuing research opportunities and funding from government agencies and industry.

Transfers Last 8 Days Aggregate Transfers Last 8 Days These plots show the aggregate bandwidth statistics for the past eight days with the most recent day shown first. BE CAREFUL because the graphs are autoscaling - check the scales on each axis before you compare graphs. BW (Both Systems) BW (Both Systems) BW (Both Systems) BW (Both Systems) BW (Both Systems) BW (Both Systems) BW (Both Systems) BW (Both Systems) Last edited: 2011-04-04 10:44:03

Activity Last 8 Days Transfer Activity Last 8 Days These graphs show the transfer activity statistics for the past eight days with the most recent day shown first. BE CAREFUL because the graphs are autoscaling - check the scales on each axis before you compare graphs. Transfers started/in progress (Both Systems) Transfers started/in progress (Both Systems) Transfers started/in progress (Both Systems) Transfers started/in progress (Both Systems) Transfers started/in progress (Both Systems)

Transfers Last 8 Days Concurrent Transfers Last 8 Days These plots show the concurrent transfers statistics for the past eight days with the most recent day shown first. BE CAREFUL because the graphs are autoscaling - check the scales on each axis before you compare graphs. Concurrency (Both Systems) Concurrency (Both Systems) Concurrency (Both Systems) Concurrency (Both Systems) Concurrency (Both Systems) Concurrency (Both Systems) Concurrency (Both Systems) Concurrency (Both Systems) Last

of Energy County's Green Idea House Achieves Efficient Goals Los Angeles County's Green Idea House Achieves Efficient Goals Photo of an energy-efficient home with modern architecture. The Green Idea House (GIH), an innovative whole-home upgrade project in Los Angeles County, California, has released its latest electric bill, detailing its power consumption through June 2013. The results show that GIH produced more energy than it consumed over the course of a year, including zero combustion

Pi Day of the Century Pi Day of the Century WHEN: Mar 14, 2015 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM WHERE: Bradbury Science Museum 1350 Central Ave, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA CONTACT: Jessica Privette 505 667-0375 CATEGORY: Bradbury INTERNAL: Calendar Login Pi Event Description A special day celebrating this once-in-a-century occasion. Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant π, a never-ending, transcendental number representing the ratio of a circle's circumference to its

ALS Holds Annual Safety Day ALS Holds Annual Safety Day Print by Scott Taylor, ALS Safety Manager Andrew Doran cleans equipment housing at Beamline 12.2.2. The ALS held its annual safety day on Monday, June 13 for all ALS and associated staff. The day started with an all-hands meeting, beginning with presentations by ALS Director Roger Falcone and LBNL Environmental Health and Safety Division Director (and former ALS Safety Manager) Jim Floyd. Both discussed the importance of the incorporation

In this study, Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine microbial biodiversity and function of the world’s oceans. It is a simultaneous global mega-sequencing campaign aiming to generate the largest standardized microbial data set in a single day. This will be achievable only through the coordinated efforts of an Ocean Sampling Day Consortium, supportive partnerships and networks between sites. This commentary outlines the establishment, function and aims of the Consortium and describes our vision for a sustainable study of marine microbial communities and their embedded functional traits.

We summarize some of the work done by the P3 subgroup on Alternative Models and New Ideas. The working group covered a broad range of topics including a constrained Standard Model from an extra dimension, a discussion of recent ideas addressing the strong CP problem, searches for doubly charged higgs bosons in e{gamma} collisions, and an update on discovery limits for extra neutral gauge bosons at hadron colliders. The breadth of topics rejects the many ideas and approaches to physics beyond the Standard Model.

This is a worksheet by Adam Cohen, fellow for the SunShot Initiative, for the 2014 SunShot Grand Challenge Summit and Peer Review Workshop, "New Ideas for Seeding Your Solar Marketplace: Program Pilots and Embedded Experiments."

Transitions | Department of Energy Ideas into Impact: The Energy Department's Office of Technology Transitions Turning Ideas into Impact: The Energy Department's Office of Technology Transitions December 8, 2015 - 9:05am Addthis Find out how we connect scientists with innovators and entrepreneurs, like the company who used the National Labsâ supercomputing power to model aerodynamics of long-haul trucks to improve efficiency. | Image by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Find out how we

Parade of Homes Display Features Energy-Saving Ideas For more information contact: George Douglas (303) 275-4096 e:mail: george_douglas@nrel.gov Golden, Colo., July 29, 1998  The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory will showcase energy efficient and solar energy ideas for homebuyers and homebuilders during the Denver-area Parade of Homes. NREL's exhibit features information on energy-efficient lighting, building design, windows and insulation. The display

Science Fair Project Ideas for Energy Savers Science Fair Project Ideas for Energy Savers February 12, 2016 - 11:43am Addthis Electricity usage monitors make it easy to measure the electricity consumed by any device that runs on 120 volts. Photo by Alexis Powers Electricity usage monitors make it easy to measure the electricity consumed by any device that runs on 120 volts. Photo by Alexis Powers Alexis Powers Communications Specialist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory How can I

Solar Panel Design Ideas for Your Home Solar Panel Design Ideas for Your Home June 8, 2016 - 5:08pm Addthis These examples of building integrated photovoltaic panels are like solar eye candy. All images from U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon These examples of building integrated photovoltaic panels are like solar eye candy. All images from U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Alexis Powers Communications Specialist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Solar is not just for

of Energy Universities Provide Pipeline of Talent, Ideas, and Innovation Universities Provide Pipeline of Talent, Ideas, and Innovation February 17, 2016 - 11:07am Addthis Hyliion from Carnegie Mellon University won the 2015 top student DOE cleantech entrepreneur prize. Who will win in 2016? Hyliion from Carnegie Mellon University won the 2015 top student DOE cleantech entrepreneur prize. Who will win in 2016? Tomorrow marks the beginning of a very exciting collegiate season. No we aren't

Lights | Department of Energy A Bright Idea: New Efficiency Standards for Incandescent and Fluorescent Lights A Bright Idea: New Efficiency Standards for Incandescent and Fluorescent Lights July 21, 2009 - 5:18pm Addthis John Lippert Pretty soon, lighting is going to get a lot more efficient. New standards for incandescent reflector bulbs, general purpose fluorescent bulbs, and regular incandescent bulbs are going into effect beginning in approximately three years. You may be curious about

In this study, Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine microbial biodiversity and function of the world’s oceans. It is a simultaneous global mega-sequencing campaign aiming to generate the largest standardized microbial data set in a single day. This will be achievable only through the coordinated efforts of an Ocean Sampling Day Consortium, supportive partnerships and networks between sites. This commentary outlines the establishment, function and aims of the Consortium and describes our vision for a sustainable study of marine microbial communities and theirmore » embedded functional traits.« less

We’re not just interested in talking the talk at the Energy Department, it’s important to us to walk the walk. To do that, we’re working every day across the country to make our operations more sustainable and efficient. Take these employees, for example.

The Council on Environmental Quality`s (CEQ`S) principal aims in implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are (1) to reduce paperwork, (2) to reduce delay, and (3) to produce better decisions. However, almost since the passage of NEPA, the quality and quantity of information typically found in NEPA documents have been criticized. The quality of NEPA documents could be greatly enhanced through improved planning and acquisition, organization, and presentation of information. The authors offer ideas for streamlining the NEPA process and documents for preparers of NEPA documents. These ideas address the issues of improved planning and information handling. Although most of these ideas are not new, stricter adherence to them would address many of the criticisms of Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements.

The Innovative Manufacturing Initiative (IMI) Recognition Day (held in Washington, DC on June 20, 2012) showcased IMI projects selected by the Energy Department to help American manufacturers dramatically increase the energy efficiency of their operations and reduce costs. Each project will advance transformational technologies and materials that can benefit a broad cross-section of the domestic economy. This event created a platform for inter-agency and industry networking and also raised awareness among congressional staff and private investors.

Argonne's 2012 Earth Day event drew crowds from across the laboratory. Argonne and U.S. Department of Energy employees toured booths and interactive displays set up by Argonne programs and clubs. Several of Argonne's partners participated, including U.S. Department of Energy, University of Chicago, Abri Credit Union, DuPage County Forest Preserve, DuPage Water Commission, PACE and Morton Arboretum. Argonne scientists and engineers also participated in a poster session, discussing their clean energy research.

Landfills reaching capacity, beaches fouled with trash, neighborhood residents protesting waste disposal sites in their backyards, and municipalities forced to recycle. Sound familiar? These issues might have been taken from today`s headlines, but they were also problems facing mechanical engineers a century ago. Conditions such as these were what led engineers to design the first incinerators for reducing the volume of municipal garbage, as well as for producing heat and electricity. The paper discusses these early days.

Physics AAPT Strand Day NSTA Regional, 2005 Jocelyn Monroe, Columbia University 1. What Is a Neutrino Anyway? 2. The Question Of Neutrino Mass 3. Searching For Neutrino Oscillations 4. Where Are We Now? ν Neutrinos, they are very small. They have no charge and have no mass And do not interact at all. The earth is just a silly ball To them, through which they simply pass... ...And pierce the lover and his lass From underneath the bed- you call It wonderful; I call it crass. J from ``Cosmic

Remembrance National Day of Remembrance December 10, 2014 - 11:56am Addthis Mr. David Klaus, Deputy Under Secretary for Management and Performance, speaking at the October 31, 2014 National Remembrance Day event. Mr. David Klaus, Deputy Under Secretary for Management and Performance, speaking at the October 31, 2014 National Remembrance Day event. On July 9, 2014, the U.S. Senate announced the passage of S. Res. 417, a Senate resolution designating October 30, 2014, as a National Day of

I/O Statistics Last 30 Days I/O Statistics Last 30 Days These plots show the daily statistics for the last 30 days for the storage systems at NERSC in terms of the amount of data transferred and the number of files transferred. Daily I/O Volume Daily I/O Count

Students Celebrate Earth Day at NREL For more information contact: e:mail: Public Affairs Golden, Colo., April 17, 1998  Media are invited to cover Earth Day celebration designed to inspire a new generation of scientists to discover better ways of using our natural resources. What: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will host an Earth Day celebration for 60 elementary students. Hands-on activities will include building model solar cars and

In 2009, we presented the idea of an American academy for training safeguards inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), due to the declining percentage of Americans in that international organization. In this paper we assert that there is still a compelling need for this academy. While the American Safeguards Academy would be useful in preparing and pre-training American inspectors for the IAEA, it would also be useful for preparing Americans for domestic safeguards duties in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. DOE National Laboratories, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). It is envisioned that such an academy would train graduate and post-graduate university students, DOE National Laboratory interns, and nuclear safeguards professionals in the modern equipment, safeguards measures, and approaches currently used by the IAEA. It is also envisioned that the Academy would involve the domestic nuclear industry, which could provide use of commercial nuclear facilities for tours and demonstrations of the safeguards tools and methods in actual nuclear facilities. This would be in support of the U.S. DOE National Nuclear Security Administration’s Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI). This training would also help American nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation professionals better understand the potential limitations of the current tools used by the IAEA and give them a foundation from which to consider even more effective and efficient safeguards measures and approaches.

Nondestructive assay (NDA) measurements of uranium cylinders play an important role in helping the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguard uranium enrichment plants. Traditionally, these measurements have consisted of a scale or load cell to determine the mass of UF{sub 6} in the cylinder combined with a gamma-ray measurement of the 186 keV peak from {sup 235}U to determine enrichment. More recently, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed systems that exploit the passive neutron signal from UF{sub 6} to determine uranium mass and/or enrichment. These include the Uranium Cylinder Assay System (UCAS), the Passive Neutron Enrichment Meter (PNEM), and the Hybrid Enrichment Verification Array (HEVA). The purpose of this report is to provide the IAEA with new ideas on technologies that may or may not be under active development but could be useful for UF{sub 6} cylinder assay. To begin, we have included two feasibility studies of active interrogation techniques. There is a long history of active interrogation in the field of nuclear safeguards, especially for uranium assay. Both of the active techniques provide a direct measure of {sup 235}U content. The first is an active neutron method based on the existing PNEM design that uses a correlated {sup 252}Cf interrogation source. This technique shows great promise for UF{sub 6} cylinder assay and is based on advanced technology that could be implemented in the field in the near term. The second active technique is nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF). In the NRF technique, a bremsstrahlung photon beam could be used to illuminate the cylinder, and high-resolution gamma-ray detectors would detect the characteristic de-excitation photons. The results of the feasibility study show that under certain measurement geometries, NRF is impractical for UF6 cylinder assay, but the 'grazing transmission' and 'secant transmission' geometries have more potential

Volunteer Day Volunteer Day Posted: February 11, 2013 - 3:48pm | Y-12 Report | Volume 9, Issue 2 | 2013 For 10 years, Y-12 employees and their friends and family members have donated lots of sweat equity and talent to improve their communities through an annual Day of Volunteering. From caring for llamas to sprucing up playgrounds and picnic areas to stocking donated food items, employees are willing to roll up their T-shirt sleeves and lend a hand. Libraries, animal shelters, food pantries,

Announcement of Major New Energy Efficiency Effort | Department of Energy Kicks Off Five Days of Earth Day Activities with Announcement of Major New Energy Efficiency Effort Vice President Biden Kicks Off Five Days of Earth Day Activities with Announcement of Major New Energy Efficiency Effort April 21, 2010 - 12:00am Addthis Washington, D.C. -- Vice President Biden will today kick off five days of Administration events around the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with the announcement of the

he Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies and Vehicle Technologies Offices (BETO and VTO) are co-hosting a stakeholder Listening Day to help shape a major new Sustainable Transportation initiative: Co-optimization of Fuels and Engines (Optima).

Hibernation (201) | Department of Energy Do You Want from Peer Exchange in 2016? Moving Your Ideas Out of Hibernation (201) What Do You Want from Peer Exchange in 2016? Moving Your Ideas Out of Hibernation (201) Buildings Residential Network Peer Exchange Call Series: What Do You Want from Peer Exchange in 2016? Moving Your Ideas Out of Hibernation (201), call slides and discussion summary. Call Slides and Discussion Summary (1012.33 KB) More Documents & Publications Home Upgrades:

Energy Big and Small Ideas: How to Lower Solar Financing Costs Big and Small Ideas: How to Lower Solar Financing Costs DOE hosted the "Big & Small Ideas: How to Lower Solar Financing Costs" breakout session during the SunShot Grand Challenge Summit and Technology Forum. This session explored a range of solutions for making scalable, low-cost financing more available to the growing solar energy market. The intent was to generate new ideas, build connections, and accelerate

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is hosting several Energy Industry Day events to promote and publicize opportunities for small businesses seeking to meet DOE support requirements. Opportunities will be available for attendees to learn of potential partnerships with prime and subcontracting companies. These Energy Industry Day events would both support the agency's commitment to DOE's "Small Business First Policy" and would provide dedicated sessions that introduce Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and other prime contract holders with small business.

AMO hosted an Industry Day workshop to explain the concept, vision, and technology needs associated with support for a Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute on Smart Manufacturing. The workshop was held on February 25, 2015 at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.

AMO hosted an Industry Day workshop to explain the concept, vision, and technology needs associated with support for a Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute on Smart Manufacturing. The workshop was held on February 25, 2015 at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.

Oil and gas are produced in many parts of the world. Persons working in the petroleum industry can learn much by communicating with colleagues in other countries, but the opportunities for engineers and scientists to come together and discuss petroleum environmental control practices, technologies, and regulations with representatives of other countries are limited. This paper describes the very useful International Petroleum Environmental Conference (IPEC) which completed its seventh meeting in November 2000 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The 7th IPEC attracted 350 participants, including 26 participants from countries other than the United States. The 7th IPEC emphasized international issues and included more than 20 papers by international authors or on international topics. The conference covered all aspects of petroleum environmental issues and featured speakers from many disciplines. The conference included technical sessions on the following topics: Legal and Regulatory Issues in the Oil and Gas Industry; Pollution Prevention, Waste Management, and Waste Minimization; Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons; Characterization and Remediation of Brine-Impacted Soils; Biotreatment and Bioremediation; International Issues in the Oil and Gas Industry; Phytoremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons; Treatment and Management of Produced Water; Forensic Geochemistry and Site Characterization/Technology Transfer; Environmentall Acceptable Endpoints; Desulfurization of Fuels and Waste Streams; Control of Air Emissions; MTBE/Phytoremediation and Natural Attenuation; and Treatment and Remediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons. The last day of the conference was devoted to a special symposium on 'Innovative Technologies for Subsurface Characterization and Remediation.' The authors recommend this conference as a forum for industry, government, and academia to freely exchange ideas and information.

Revised 11-2009 30-Day Federal Register Notice - Proposed [6450-01-P] DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Proposed Agency Information Collection AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice and Request for OMB Review and Comment SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance, a proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed collection will {enter a brief description of the

This presentation by T. McNevin of the New Jersey Bureau of Air Quality Planning was part of the July 2008 Webcast sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program Clean Energy and Air Quality Integration Initiative that was titled Role of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Improving Air Quality and Addressing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals on High Electric Demand Days.

Day Entertainment Pleading Your Case NvE experts share their knowledge with students. Ken Walker comes on-board to manage the new MAS directorate. Irwin coaches future lawyers in competition. See page 6. See page 5. Aerial Exercise Prepares Agencies to Respond to Rad/Nuc Emergencies It was a first for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). The WINGS emergency response exercise, held at the NNSS's Desert Rock Airport March 25, brought

30-Day Federal Register Notice - Extension [6450-01-P] DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Agency Information Collection Extension AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. ACTION: Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review; comment request SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted an information collection request to the OMB for extension under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection requests a three-year extension of its {enter the Title of the

30-Day Federal Register Notice - Proposed [6450-01-P] DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Proposed Agency Information Collection AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice and Request for OMB Review and Comment SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance, a proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed collection will {enter a brief description of the collection that

As a part of the Earth Day celebration, Deputy Secretary Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall will represent DOE during the pregame acknowledgements and Presidents Race at Nationals Park on Friday, April 22, when the Nationals play the Minnesota Twins beginning at 7:05 p.m. The Sustainability Performance Office (SPO) is assisting with this "Celebration of Sustainability" to have some fun while promoting workplace sustainability to staff and citizens.

This is the presentation by Adam Cohen, fellow for the SunShot Initiative, for the 2014 SunShot Summit Grand Challenge and Peer Review Workshop, "New Ideas for Seeding Your Solar Marketplace: Program Pilots and Embedded Experiments."

Industries | Department of Energy Bridging the Gap: Helping Small Businesses With Big Ideas Develop New Industries Bridging the Gap: Helping Small Businesses With Big Ideas Develop New Industries October 25, 2011 - 3:59pm Addthis Semprius, solar panels shown above, announced that it is building a factory in Henderson, NC to manufacture its high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules and is expected to create more than 250 full-time jobs over the next five years. Semprius, solar

Call for ideas LANS Venture Acceleration Fund announces "Call for Ideas" VAF invests in creating and growing Northern New Mexico businesses that have an association with Los Alamos National Laboratory technology or expertise. August 2, 2010 Los Alamos National Laboratory sits on top of a once-remote mesa in northern New Mexico with the Jemez mountains as a backdrop to research and innovation covering multi-disciplines from bioscience, sustainable energy sources, to plasma physics and

| Department of Energy 2014 SunShot Summit Workshop: New Ideas for Seeding Your Solar Marketplace 2014 SunShot Summit Workshop: New Ideas for Seeding Your Solar Marketplace This workshop took place at the 2014 SunShot Grand Challenge Summit and Peer Review in Anaheim, CA. Workshop Description Solar installers, utilities, non-profit groups, and policymakers are charged with creating on-the-ground solar programs. A new set of tools, developed by social scientists and strengthened with the

| Department of Energy Small Businesses Bring Their Clean Energy Ideas to the Marketplace Helping Small Businesses Bring Their Clean Energy Ideas to the Marketplace July 22, 2010 - 2:39pm Addthis Dr. Kristina Johnson Dr. Kristina Johnson Founder & CEO, Cube Hydro Partners Small businesses play a large role in shaping the American economy and the clean energy revolution. They're an engine of job growth -- creating around two out of every three new jobs in this country -- and they are

4 Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2014 1 of 25 Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2014 Credit: Argonne National Laboratory (photo by Mark Lopez) Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2014 1 of 25 Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2014 Credit: Argonne National Laboratory (photo by Mark Lopez) Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2014 2 of 25 Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2014 Credit: Argonne National Laboratory (photo by Wes Agresta) Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2014 3 of 25

Do you care about power and our environment? Are you buzzing with innovative ideas? If so, the Energy Department wants to hear your new and creative concepts for improving the cost and performance of power or industrial systems that depend on fossil energy.

Days of Energy Savings 12 Days of Energy Savings December 24, 2012 - 9:30am Addthis Day 12: Drive Your Way to Fuel Savings 1 of 12 Day 12: Drive Your Way to Fuel Savings Save money on fuel costs by emptying your car after all your shopping trips -- an extra 100 pounds in your vehicle could increase gas costs by up to $.08 a gallon. Image: Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department Day 11: Plug Holiday Decorations into Power Strips 2 of 12 Day 11: Plug Holiday Decorations into Power Strips Stop phantom

12 Days of Energy Savings 12 Days of Energy Savings Addthis Day 12: Drive Your Way to Fuel Savings 1 of 12 Day 12: Drive Your Way to Fuel Savings Save money on fuel costs by emptying your car after all your shopping trips -- an extra 100 pounds in your vehicle could increase gas costs by up to $.08 a gallon. Image: Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department Day 11: Plug Holiday Decorations into Power Strips 2 of 12 Day 11: Plug Holiday Decorations into Power Strips Stop phantom loads -- which cost

Entrepreneurs Celebrated at White House Demo Day Entrepreneurs Celebrated at White House Demo Day August 4, 2015 - 1:50pm Addthis Entrepreneurs Celebrated at White House Demo Day Minh Le Minh Le Deputy Director, Solar Energy Technologies Office Today, President Obama is hosting the first-ever White House Demo Day, showcasing entrepreneurs who have launched innovative businesses across the country. The event will highlight a diverse set of entrepreneurs: people whose stories show why America

Department of Energy Stacked for Success: Celebrating National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day Stacked for Success: Celebrating National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day October 8, 2015 - 11:15am Addthis Stacked for Success: Celebrating National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day David Friedman David Friedman Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (Acting) Do you know the atomic weight of hydrogen? It's 1.008, which makes today, October 8, a great day to celebrate National Hydrogen and

This report describes key ideas underlying the application of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties (QMU) to nuclear weapons stockpile lifecycle decisions at Sandia National Laboratories. While QMU is a broad process and methodology for generating critical technical information to be used in stockpile management, this paper emphasizes one component, which is information produced by computational modeling and simulation. In particular, we discuss the key principles of developing QMU information in the form of Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty, the need to separate aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in QMU, and the risk-informed decision making that is best suited for decisive application of QMU. The paper is written at a high level, but provides a systematic bibliography of useful papers for the interested reader to deepen their understanding of these ideas.

The idea of designing a cogeneration project that produces electricity based on the existing heating load is common to many cogeneration projects, but may be limiting the ultimate potential to the end user. Cogeneration which is developed as a power generator producing a small amount of steam for a host load is also common. However, the idea of designing a cogeneration facility to track multiple utility loads is not as common. Where the concept has been used, the projects have been very successful. This article has been written as a primer for professionals looking for ideas when performing analysis of a potential cogeneration project, and as a thought-provoker for end users. The authors will look at each of the possible loads, outline various technical considerations and factors, look at the factors impacting the economics, and lay out an approach that would provide assistance to those trying to analyze a cogeneration project without specialized engineering assistance. Regulatory, legal and financing issues are covered in other sources.

Energy Sustainable Transportation Day Drives Innovation Forward Sustainable Transportation Day Drives Innovation Forward June 24, 2015 - 3:29pm Addthis Sustainable Trucking 1 of 13 Sustainable Trucking The Freightliner SuperTruck stopped by Energy Department headquarters as part of Sustainable Transportation Day on Monday, June 22, 2015. The Energy Department-supported truck has achieved a fuel efficiency of 12.2 miles per gallon, more than double that of the baseline vehicle. Image: Matt

Lab Old Dominion University to Celebrate Annual Womengineers Day Old Dominion University to Celebrate Annual Womengineers Day February 26, 2002 ODU Womengineers Poster Old Dominion University is planning its second annual Womengineers Day for Saturday, March 9. Sponsored by the College of Engineering and Technology in partnership with the Hampton Roads Technology Council and the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT), the event is designed for students, professional engineers and teachers of

Earth Day Y-12 Earth Day The mp4 video format is not supported by this browser. Download video Captions: On Time: 9:40 min. Y-12 employees celebrated Earth Day through random acts of green, including a drawing contest for children and a special song written and performed by Sam Easterling of Environment, Safety and Health. Several local organizations also provided information, including Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Ijams Nature Center and the Roane County Master Gardner Association.

Volunteer Day 2015 Y-12 Volunteer Day 2015 The mp4 video format is not supported by this browser. Download video Captions: On Time: 3:57 min. Hundreds of Y-12 employees friends and family members spread across several counties during Y-12's Day of Volunteering. View a short film highlighting efforts at the Volunteer Ministry Center in Knoxville, the Oak Ridge Nursery School, the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge and the Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association

4, 2014 - 11:37am Addthis Sates across the nation celebrated Weatherization Day on October 30 with guided tours and Gubernatorial proclamations. In this photo, A team of weatherization technicians perform a site demonstration in Minnesota on Weatherization Day in 2012. | Photo courtesy of WAPTAC. Sates across the nation celebrated Weatherization Day on October 30 with guided tours and Gubernatorial proclamations. In this photo, A team of weatherization technicians perform a site demonstration in

New Employee Orientation » What To Bring On Your First Day What To Bring On Your First Day What To Bring On Your First Day Unless otherwise directed, you should plan on reporting to the Main Lobby Visitor Area at your duty station by 8:30 a.m. on your first day of work. You will be greeted by an HR representative and escorted to the Entrance-On-Duty Orientation Session. In order to complete your in-processing into the Department of Energy, you must bring the following items and paperwork with

World Cancer Day 2015: Not Beyond Us Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) World Cancer Day 2015: Not Beyond Us Mark Frontera 2015.02.05 Yesterday, Feb. 4, marked World Cancer Day, a day set aside each year to raise awareness about cancer worldwide. This year's theme, "not beyond us," speaks to the

Security Administration | (NNSA) Children join nuclear security enterprise for the day Friday, April 29, 2016 - 3:14pm What do you want to be when you grow up, the NNSA scientists asked. "An astrophysicist!" NNSA employees' children joined the team for the day at NNSA's office in Germantown, Md. The NNSA team got a lot bigger, and younger - at least for one day - as employees' 5th- to 12th-grade children accompanied them to work for "Take your Daughters and Sons to Work

Comprehensive Plan of Action | Department of Energy Statement from Secretary Moniz on Implementation Day for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Statement from Secretary Moniz on Implementation Day for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action January 16, 2016 - 5:07pm Addthis News Media Contact (202) 586-4940 DOENews@hq.doe.gov Implementation Day is a milestone in the effort to ensure that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful in nature by blocking potential pathways to a bomb. As

2 - Terre Haute to Godfrey For more information contact: Patrick Booher, Sunrayce Program Manager (202) 586-0713 Godfrey, Ill., June 20, 1997 -- George Washington University's team took Day II and the overall lead as Sunrayce 97 completed its second day of running. Their elapsed time for the day was 4:10:31. Second place went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 4:11:27. The two teams are neck-in-neck with only 11 seconds separating them in the overall standings. In third place is

3 - Godfrey to Fulton For more information contact: Patrick Booher, Sunrayce Program Manager (202) 586-0713 Fulton, Mo., June 21, 1997 -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took Day III and the overall lead as Sunrayce 97 completed its third day of running. The elapsed time for the day for the Manta GT was 4:04:30. Second place went to California State University - Los Angeles, 4:06:37. The two teams are still neck-in-neck with only 15:38 separating them in the overall standings.

4 - Fulton to Lee's Summit For more information contact: Patrick Booher, Sunrayce Program Manager (202) 586-0713 Lee's Summit, MO -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took Day IV and maintained the overall lead as sunrayce 97 completed its fourth day. The elapsed time for the day for the Manta GT was 3:26:45. Second place went to University of Waterloo, 3:29:02. University of Minnesota came in third place with a time of 3:31:24. According to Pat Booher, Sunrayce 97 Co-Director,

ChemCam all-women's operations day ChemCam all-women's operations day The Mars Curiosity Rover celebrated one year on the Red Planet, and to commemorate the event, ChemCam team members had an all-women operations day. June 30, 2014 Pictured from left to right are Cindy Little, Agnes Cousin, Nina Lanza, Dot Delapp and Hannah Pagel. Pictured from left to right are Cindy Little, Agnes Cousin, Nina Lanza, Dot Delapp and Hannah Pagel. ChemCam has played a crucial role in many of the rover's

Video: Secretary Moniz's First Day Video: Secretary Moniz's First Day May 22, 2013 - 2:26pm Addthis On his first day of work, Secretary Moniz attends his swearing-in ceremony, and he delivers remarks at the 2013 Energy Efficiency Global Forum. Rob Roberts Rob Roberts Former Director of Digital Strategy On May 22, Dr. Ernest Moniz was sworn in as the nation's 13th Secretary of Energy and spoke about his vision for the Department's future. Afterwards, employees had a chance after the ceremony to

Celebrate Earth Day with Secretary Chu Celebrate Earth Day with Secretary Chu April 16, 2012 - 5:51pm Q&A What would you ask Secretary Chu about the environmental benefits of transitioning to a clean energy economy? Ask Us Addthis Celebrate Earth Day with Secretary Chu Amanda Scott Amanda Scott Former Managing Editor, Energy.gov How can I participate? Tweet questions @energy with the hashtag #AskEnergy. Email questions to newmedia@hq.doe.gov. This Friday, April 20, at 10:45am ET, join us for

The 2016 Navajo Nation Economic Summit and Business Opportunity Day will include contract opportunities, matchmaking, one-on-one with buyers and purchasing agencies, network and evening banquet, and over 24 session topics. Conference registration ends April 5.

Energy Department-supported technologies such as the Freightliner SuperTruck, 3D-printed Shelby Cobra and fuel cell vehicles were on display outside our headquarters as part of Sustainable Transportation Day on Monday, June 22, 2015.

Here the author expresses some of his views on how the fabrication of future synchrotron beam-line optics ought to be approached. Many of the most interesting new ideas for beam-line mirrors, especially those with a promise of low costs, involve metals. Historically these materials had posed certain problems, but these have been overcome in recent times to the extent that the initial complement of Advanced-Light-Source (ALS) beam-line optics were made of metal and have met their specifications. To go furthere along that road one needs to get more interested in the metallurgical issues involved in making high-quality metal mirrors. The author recounts the results of some investigations into these materials questions and trys to draw on some of the experiences and achievements of these communities which have hitherto had only limited contact with synchrotron radiation researchers.

Jobs Day and Nuclear Risk Insurance Announcement Jobs Day and Nuclear Risk Insurance Announcement August 4, 2006 - 8:41am Addthis Prepared Remarks for Energy Secretary Bodman Thank you all for being here and thanks, Mike, for that very nice introduction and for the tour of your transmission control center. I also want to thank Southern Company and Georgia Power for arranging this event and I appreciate Lauren Walker from Governor Perdue's office and Derick Corbett from Congressman Linder's

Second annual LDRD Day Lab to host second annual LDRD Day September 8 The event provides an opportunity for people to see some of the most exciting research currently underway at the Laboratory. September 2, 2010 Los Alamos National Laboratory sits on top of a once-remote mesa in northern New Mexico with the Jemez mountains as a backdrop to research and innovation covering multi-disciplines from bioscience, sustainable energy sources, to plasma physics and new materials. Los Alamos National

DOE HQ Celebrates Earth Day 2013 DOE headquarters is celebrating Earth Day 2013 (April 22) with a full week of festivities. Events will be held April 22-25 at the Forrestal building and April 29-May 2 at the Germantown building. Activities include a photo contest, an environmental film series, a showcase of alternative fuel vehicles, and displays from green exhibitors. For more information and a list of events, visit DOE Earth Week's Powerpedia page at https://

Department of Energy Morning Session 2012 Smart Grid Peer Review Presentations - Day 1 Morning Session The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability held its bi-annual peer review of the Smart Grid Research and Development Program on June 7-8, 2012. More than 30 projects were presented at San Diego Gas & Electric's Energy Innovation Center. Presentations from the Day 1 morning session are below. Moderator: Dan Ton, DOE 2012 SG Peer Review - Smart Inverter Controls and

Laboratory Contact education@anl.gov Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Registration Participants are given the opportunity to explore a career in engineering through hands on activities and talking to Argonne's renowned engineers. We encourage all eligible participants to apply to "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day". All applicants must be in eighth grade and need to complete the online application. Space for the event is limited and participants will be selected by a lottery

25, 2015 - 12:20pm Addthis West Plains, Missouri, Mayor Jack Pahlmann issued a proclamation recognizing National Weatherization Day on Oct. 30. Here, the Mayor (in sport coat and red shirt) presents his proclamation at a West Plains home undergoing weatherization. Weatherization funding for the home comes, in part, from the U.S. Department of Energy. West Plains, Missouri, Mayor Jack Pahlmann issued a proclamation recognizing National Weatherization Day on Oct. 30. Here, the Mayor (in sport coat

fraction - Cloud Inter-Compariosn IOP results Day and Night cloud fraction - Cloud Inter-Compariosn IOP results Genkova, Iliana University of Illinois-Champaign Long, Chuck Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Turner, David Pacific Northwest National Laboratory We present results from the CIC IOP from March-may, 2003. Day time and night time cloud fraction retrieval algorithms have been presented and intercompared. Amount of low, middle and high cloud have been estimated and compared to

Optima Stakeholder Listening Day Summary Report Sponsored jointly by the Vehicle Technologies Office and the Bioenergy Technologies Office Hosted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory June 16-17, 2015 Golden, Colorado CO-OPTIMA STAKEHOLDER LISTENING DAY SUMMARY REPORT Disclaimer This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government. Neither the United States government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty,

Memorial Day Message Friday, May 22, 2015 - 10:57am NNSA Blog Every year on Memorial Day, we honor the memory of those who died while defending our great Nation. We owe them, as well as their families and loved ones, more than we can ever repay for the sacrifices they have made on our behalf. At 3 p.m. on Monday, wherever you may happen to be, please stop and pause for one minute to remember those service members who answered the call to safeguard our interests around the world and to protect

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is hosting several Energy Industry Day events to promote and publicize opportunities for small businesses seeking to meet DOE support requirements. Opportunities will be available for attendees to learn of potential partnerships with prime and subcontracting companies. These Energy Industry Day events would both support the agency's commitment to DOE's "Small Business First Policy" and would provide dedicated sessions that introduce Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and other prime contract holders with small business.

Lab to host annual LDRD day Lab to host annual LDRD Day September 13 Some of LANL's most innovative scientists will explain and present their cutting-edge work to the public. September 6, 2011 Los Alamos National Laboratory sits on top of a once-remote mesa in northern New Mexico with the Jemez mountains as a backdrop to research and innovation covering multi-disciplines from bioscience, sustainable energy sources, to plasma physics and new materials. Los Alamos National Laboratory sits on top

Department of Energy Nuclear Security Workers on the National Day of Remembrance Honoring Nuclear Security Workers on the National Day of Remembrance October 31, 2011 - 11:54am Addthis Workers dismantle a remaining B53, ensuring that the system will never again be part of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. | Credit: NNSA photo Workers dismantle a remaining B53, ensuring that the system will never again be part of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. | Credit: NNSA photo Secretary Chu

Learn About Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Contact education@anl.gov Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day "Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon."- Malala Yousafzai, 2014 Nobel Prize Laureate Are you a problem solver? Are you compelled to understand how things work? Come join Argonne National Laboratory in exploring the world of Engineering and the endless possibilities a career in this exciting field offers. Women in Science and Technology, in

Exposure to chemical mixtures is a common and important determinant of toxicity and is of particular concern due to their appearance in sources of drinking water. Despite this, few in vivo mixture studies have been conducted to date to understand the health impact of chemical mixtures compared to single chemicals. Interactive effects of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As) were evaluated in 30-, 90-, and 180-day factorial design drinking water studies in rats designed to test the hypothesis that ingestion of such mixtures at individual component Lowest-Observed-Effect-Levels (LOELs) results in increased levels of the pro-oxidant delta aminolevulinic acid (ALA), iron, and copper. LOEL levels of Pb, Cd, and As mixtures resulted in the increased presence of mediators of oxidative stress such as ALA, copper, and iron. ALA increases were followed by statistically significant increases in kidney copper in the 90- and 180-day studies. Statistical evidence of interaction was identified for six biologically relevant variables: blood delta aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD), kidney ALAD, urinary ALA, urinary iron, kidney iron, and kidney copper. The current investigations underscore the importance of considering interactive effects that common toxic agents such as Pb, Cd, and As may have upon one another at low-dose levels. The interactions between known toxic trace elements at biologically relevant concentrations shown here demonstrate a clear need to rigorously review methods by which national/international agencies assess health risks of chemicals, since exposures may commonly occur as complex mixtures.

2014 is the 21st anniversary of the annual opportunity to immerse your children and relatives in the daily work of the Energy Department. On Thursday, April 24, bring your daughters and sons to the office with you for a day of shadowing your work, showing off your office, testing out the cafeteria, and meeting your coworkers. Check with your office for structured activities.

The John Day is the nation's second longest free-flowing river in the contiguous United States and the longest containing entirely unsupplemented runs of anadromous fish. Located in eastern Oregon, the basin drains over 8,000 square miles, Oregon's fourth largest drainage basin, and incorporates portions of eleven counties. Originating in the Strawberry Mountains near Prairie City, the John Day River flows 284 miles in a northwesterly direction, entering the Columbia River approximately four miles upstream of the John Day dam. With wild runs of spring Chinook salmon and summer steelhead, westslope cutthroat, and redband and bull trout, the John Day system is truly a basin with national significance. The majority of the John Day basin was ceded to the Federal government in 1855 by the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon (Tribes). In 1997, the Tribes established an office in the basin to coordinate restoration projects, monitoring, planning and other watershed activities on private and public lands. Once established, the John Day Basin Office (JDBO) formed a partnership with the Grant Soil and Water Conservation District (GSWCD), which contracts the majority of the construction implementation activities for these projects from the JDBO. The GSWCD completes the landowner contact, preliminary planning, engineering design, permitting, construction contracting, and construction implementation phases of most projects. The JDBO completes the planning, grant solicitation/defense, environmental compliance, administrative contracting, monitoring, and reporting portion of the program. Most phases of project planning, implementation, and monitoring are coordinated with the private landowners and basin agencies, such as the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Oregon Water Resources Department. In 2003, the JDBO and GSWCD proposed continuation of their successful partnership between the two agencies and basin landowners to implement an additional

I review the set of theoretical ideas motivating experimental searches of light physics beyond Standard Model using the high-intensity electron beams. While 'dark photon' is the chief example of such physics, the other 'light and dark' states (e.g. 'Dark Higgses') are also of interest. I discuss particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics applications.

Features Energy Activities, Tours For more information contact: e:mail: Public Affairs Golden, Colo., April 12, 1999  Celebrate Earth Day by discovering the power of clean energy at the nation's premier laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research, development and deployment. The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will open its doors 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., April 24 for tours of its research facilities and interactive exhibits at the Visitors

Nuclear Security Administration | (NNSA) NNSA Small Business Week Day 4: Government Scientific Source December 16, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Monday announced that it distributed more than $395 million in small business obligations for federal prime contracts in fiscal year 2010. NNSA surpassed its departmental small business goal by 39 percent in fiscal year 2010. To highlight the success of its small business program, NNSA launched the

Session | Department of Energy Afternoon Session 2014 Advanced Grid Modeling Peer Review Presentations - Day One Afternoon Session The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability held a peer review of the Advanced Grid Modeling Program on June 17-18, 2014 in Alexandria, VA. The Advanced Grid Modeling Research Program leverages scientific research in mathematics for application to power system models and software tools. More than 17 projects were presented at the 2014 Advanced Grid

Session | Department of Energy Morning Session 2014 Advanced Grid Modeling Peer Review Presentations - Day One Morning Session The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability held a peer review of the Advanced Grid Modeling Program on June 17-18, 2014 in Alexandria, VA. The Advanced Grid Modeling Research Program leverages scientific research in mathematics for application to power system models and software tools. More than 17 projects were presented at the 2014 Advanced Grid

Session | Department of Energy Afternoon Session 2014 Advanced Grid Modeling Peer Review Presentations - Day Two Afternoon Session The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability held a peer review of the Advanced Grid Modeling Program on June 17-18, 2014 in Alexandria, VA. The Advanced Grid Modeling Research Program leverages scientific research in mathematics for application to power system models and software tools. More than 17 projects were presented at the 2014 Advanced Grid

Session | Department of Energy Morning Session 2014 Advanced Grid Modeling Peer Review Presentations - Day Two Morning Session The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability held a peer review of the Advanced Grid Modeling Program on June 17-18, 2014 in Alexandria, VA. The Advanced Grid Modeling Research Program leverages scientific research in mathematics for application to power system models and software tools. More than 17 projects were presented at the 2014 Advanced Grid

Eve first plasma | Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Remembering the long day's journey to a historic machine's Christmas Eve first plasma By John Greenwald December 21, 2012 Tweet Widget Google Plus One Share on Facebook The big moment arrives: The successful first plasma brought cheers to the command center. (Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) The big moment arrives: The successful first plasma brought cheers to the command center. 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the

At the request of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science (SC) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program office, a workshop was held June 2-3, 2015, in Gaithersburg, MD, to identify potential long term (10 to +20 year) cybersecurity fundamental basic research and development challenges, strategies and roadmap facing future high performance computing (HPC), networks, data centers, and extreme-scale scientific user facilities. This workshop was a follow-on to the workshop held January 7-9, 2015, in Rockville, MD, that examined higher level ideas about scientific computing integrity specific to the mission of the DOE Office of Science. Issues included research computation and simulation that takes place on ASCR computing facilities and networks, as well as network-connected scientific instruments, such as those run by various DOE Office of Science programs. Workshop participants included researchers and operational staff from DOE national laboratories, as well as academic researchers and industry experts. Participants were selected based on the submission of abstracts relating to the topics discussed in the previous workshop report [1] and also from other ASCR reports, including "Abstract Machine Models and Proxy Architectures for Exascale Computing" [27], the DOE "Preliminary Conceptual Design for an Exascale Computing Initiative" [28], and the January 2015 machine learning workshop [29]. The workshop was also attended by several observers from DOE and other government agencies. The workshop was divided into three topic areas: (1) Trustworthy Supercomputing, (2) Extreme-Scale Data, Knowledge, and Analytics for Understanding and Improving Cybersecurity, and (3) Trust within High-end Networking and Data Centers. Participants were divided into three corresponding teams based on the category of their abstracts. The workshop began with a series of talks from the program manager and workshop chair, followed by the leaders for each of the three

Cancelled Because of Weather For more information contact: e:mail: Public Affairs Golden, Colo., April 22, 1999  The Earth Day celebration planned for Saturday, April 24 at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden has been cancelled because of this week's snow storm. It will be rescheduled at a later date. Those interested in exploring NREL will have other opportunities to see firsthand how the sun, wind and plant matter can be used to make energy.

on Pearl Harbor Day, and destined for a career in the Navy, Rear Admiral John Mitchell's early life was spent in West Texas and New Mexico. He graduated from Rice University in 1964 with degrees in math and electrical engineering and immediately entered the Navy through the Navy ROTC program. During his 30-year career in the Navy, Mitchell earned a master's degree in physics at the Naval Post Graduate School, served at sea and in shipyards, and spent 18 years in the Strategic Systems Program

HERO PRESENTS A DAY HIKE AT MT. ST. HELENS Saturday, September 10, 2016 Mt. St. Helens lost its top on May 18, 1980 (see the 'before' and 'after' pictures above). The environment has been left to respond naturally to the disturbance - and we'll see how it is doing 36 years into recovery. We'll head to Windy Ridge and walk the "sand ladder," hike towards Norway Pass, take the Meta Lake trail, and see the miner's car in person (pictured below); lots of photo opportunities!! This is a

The widely accepted model of our cosmos is that it began from a Big Bang event some 13.7 billion years ago from a single point source. From a twin universe perspective, the standard stellar model of nuclear fusion can account for the Dark Energy needed to explain the mechanism for our present-day accelerated expansion. The same theories can also be used to account for the rapid inflationary expansion at the earliest time of creation, and predict the future cosmic expansion rate.

Spark on Cori Lisa Gerhardt, Evan Racah DAS Data Day What is Spark? ● Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing ● Data-parallel model ○ Similar to Hadoop, except it harnesses in-memory data for fast data processing ● Robust body of libraries: machine learning, sql, graphx, streaming ● Created at the AMPLab in UCB, currently maintained by DataBricks, more than 400 contributors to git repository ● Requires no parallel programming expertise: Can take

The primary goal of the Oregon Screens Project was to implement 20 replacement screens projects in the John Day sub-basin and any projects identified in the Umatilla and Walla Walla sub-basins. A secondary goal is to complete a passage project, if one is identified, in any of the above sub-basins. Mid-Columbia ESU listed steelhead and USF&W listed bull trout inhabit these sub-basins and are present at most locations, along with a variety of resident fish species. We also provide assistance to our Enterprise Screen Shop, in the Grande Ronde/Imnaha sub-basins, if needed. All projects were designed and implemented under current National Marine Fisheries Service screening and passage criteria.

With spiraling energy demand and flat energy supply, there is a need to extend the life of older nuclear reactors. This sometimes requires that existing systems be evaluated to present day seismic codes. Older reactors built in the 1960s and early 1970s often used fabricated piping components that were code compliant during their initial construction time period, but are outside the standard parameters of present-day piping codes. There are several approaches available to the analyst in evaluating these non-standard components to modern codes. The simplest approach is to use the flexibility factors and stress indices for similar standard components with the assumption that the non-standard component’s flexibility factors and stress indices will be very similar. This approach can require significant engineering judgment. A more rational approach available in Section III of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, which is the subject of this paper, involves calculation of flexibility factors using finite element analysis of the non-standard component. Such analysis allows modeling of geometric and material nonlinearities. Flexibility factors based on these analyses are sensitive to the load magnitudes used in their calculation, load magnitudes that need to be consistent with those produced by the linear system analyses where the flexibility factors are applied. This can lead to iteration, since the magnitude of the loads produced by the linear system analysis depend on the magnitude of the flexibility factors. After the loading applied to the nonstandard component finite element model has been matched to loads produced by the associated linear system model, the component finite element model can then be used to evaluate the performance of the component under the loads with the nonlinear analysis provisions of the Code, should the load levels lead to calculated stresses in excess of Allowable stresses. This paper details the application of component-level finite

This project is necessary to insure that replacement of fish screening devices and fishways meet current NMFS design criteria for the protection of all salmonid life stages. The mission of the fish passage program in Northeast Oregon is to protect and enhance fish populations by assisting private landowners, public landowners, irrigation districts and others by maintaining fish screening devices and fishways. These facilities reduce or eliminate fish loss associated with irrigation withdrawals, and as a result insure fish populations are maintained for enjoyment by present and future generations. Assistance is provided through state and federal programs. This can range from basic technical advice to detailed construction, fabrication and maintenance of screening and passage facilities. John Day screens personnel identified 50 sites for fish screen replacement, and one fish passage project. These sites are located in critical spawning, rearing and migration areas for spring chinook, summer steelhead and bull trout. All projects were designed and implemented to meet current NMFS criteria. It is necessary to have a large number of sites identified due to changes in weather, landowner cooperation and access issues that come up as we try and implement our goal of 21 completed projects.

This report describes short-term studies conducted in late November and early December 2001 to optimize hydroacoustic sampling techniques for John Day Dam before the 2002 fish passage efficiency (FPE) study. Knowledge gained in this study should significantly improve hydroacoustic sampling and the accuracy of estimates of fish passage at two locations that have presented problems in past studies. The spillway has been most problematic because many fish detected there were not entrained. Without correction, non-commitment of fish can result in multiple detections and overestimation of fish passage and FPE. Trash-rack-mounted, down-looking transducers for sampling unguided fish at a submerged traveling screen (STS) also have posed problems because the beam was aimed so far downstream that researchers had concerns about fish aspect and detectability. The deployments, aiming angles, and ping rates described here should eliminate all problems encountered in previous studies. This report describes hydroacoustic evaluations. The spill-bay deployment identified in this study should completely eliminate multiple detections of fish by limiting the sample volume for counting fish to the deep high-discharge volume adjacent to the gate. Results from testing of transducers deployed in a turbine intake with an STS suggest that, after testing in 2002, it may be possible to cut the number of powerhouse transducers sampling STS units by 50% or to double the spatial sampling coverage with the same number of transducers, all while improving detectability.

Day 1 Wrap Up Summary, Attendee Input, and Day 1 Wrap Up Addthis Description Summary and wrap up of day 1 presentations and preview of day 2 by DOE Integrated Safety Management Co-champions Patricia R. Worthington, HSS Director, Office of Health and Safety; and and Ray J. Corey, Assistant Manager for Safety and Environment, DOE Richland Operations Office

Science NERSC's First 'Data Day' Showcases HPC Tools for Data-Intensive Science NERSC's First 'Data Day' Showcases HPC Tools for Data-Intensive Science August 24, 2016 photo of data day »See more photos of NERSC's first-ever Data Day. More than 100 HPC enthusiasts attended NERSC's first-ever "Data Day," a two-day event designed to bring together researchers who use, or are interested in using, NERSC systems for data-intensive science. Held August 22-23 at Berkeley Lab, Data Day

What Do You Want from Peer Exchange in 2016? Moving Your Ideas Out of Hibernation (201) January 14, 2016 Call Slides and Discussion Summary Agenda  Agenda Review and Ground Rules  Brief Residential Network Overview  Reflections on Peer Exchange in 2015  Moving your Ideas out of Hibernation  What is a residential energy efficiency program challenge you have faced?  What is a topic you wished you could have discussed with experienced residential energy efficiency program peers or

Purpose: To inform physicists how to obtain an FDA 510(k) clearance for the innovations they use in their facility and to make those ideas widely available to patients throughout the U.S. Methods: Give advice from 20 years experience of assisting in well over 100 successful 510(k) clearances. Results: Learn how to develop a 510(k) submission. Conclusion: Many physicists, physicians and radiation therapists have developed innovations that that are helpful to the patients in their institution. But, many of these innovations deserve to be made available to patients throughout the United States. The author, a Certified Radiological Physicist and former FDA employee, has consulted for over twenty years for inventors, start-ups and established medical device manufacturers to bring new devices to market in the U.S. and to assist them to established FDA compliant quality systems for manufacturing. In this presentation the audience will learn the important points for deciding to go forward with obtaining a Premarket Notification clearance [also known as a 510(k) clearance] to legally market a medical device in the United States. The FDA has published guidelines for submitting a 510(k) application. However, the methods used to efficiently develop the documentation for submission and to obtain clearance in the shortest possible time comes from the author's experience in assisting well over one hundred successful 510(k) clearances.Whether you want to start your own company or to market your idea to an established medical device manufacturer, the value of your innovation increases with a documented 510(k) clearance from FDA.

On September 30 and October 1, 2014, the Department of Energy hosted a 2-day workshop on “Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Distributed Energy Technologies.” Presentations from Day 1 are available here.

On September 30 and October 1, 2014, the Department of Energy hosted a 2-day workshop on “Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Distributed Energy Technologies.” Presentations from Day 2 are available here.

This study analyzed the potential benefits of improving the accuracy (reducing the error) of day-ahead wind forecasts on power system operations, assuming that wind forecasts were used for day ahead security constrained unit commitment.

Announces Winners of Earth Day Poster Contest NETL Announces Winners of Earth Day Poster Contest winners.jpg runnerup.jpg secondrunner.jpg Pittsburgh, Pa. - The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory announced the winners of its annual Earth Day Poster Contest, which is held each year to celebrate Earth Day, April 22, to help engage America's K-5 students in the importance of protecting the environment and conserving the planet's resources. First place winners in each

Final Day 2 Wrap up Summary, Attendee Input, and Final Day 2 Wrap up Addthis Description Summary and wrap up by DOE Integrated Safety Management Co-champions Patricia R. Worthington, HSS Director, Office of Health and Safety; and and Ray J. Corey, Assistant Manager for Safety and Environment, DOE Richland Operations Office of day 2 presentations and discussions

of Energy 2: June 18, 2012 Days to Turn Trend by Vehicle Class Fact #732: June 18, 2012 Days to Turn Trend by Vehicle Class "Days to turn" is an automotive industry term that refers to the number of days that vehicles stay in dealer inventories before they are sold (i.e., the time a vehicle stays on the dealer's lot). There are many factors that influence this number including fuel prices, the economy, and supply disruptions. The figure below shows that the days to turn by vehicle

NanoDays at Bradbury Science Museum Tiny subject, big fun with NanoDays at Bradbury Science Museum NanoDays is a national campaign, engaging people of all ages in learning about the emerging field of nanoscale science and engineering. March 18, 2013 Visitors to the Bradbury Science Museum's NanoDays can learn about the strange science of this intriguing field of research. Visitors to the Bradbury Science Museum's NanoDays can learn about the strange science of this intriguing field of research.

In his recently published book A Brief History of Time, S. Hawking describes his remarkable insights into the problem of the origin of our universe. In this talk a more quantitative description of some of the important principles from this book is presented as a mathematical appendix to it. A brief review of the ideas of the Standard Big Bang Model of the Universe is given in terms of the evolution equation that follows from Einstein's theory. The meaning of the Cosmological Constant, its relation to Vacuum Energy, the model of the empty DeSitter Space and Gravity is derived. By analogy to Schroedinger mechanics one can give the general features of Quantum Cosmology', in which the origin of the universe can be viewed as a quantum tunneling process in imaginary time from a Quantum Chaos state of no space, no time, no matter to an inflationary expanding DeSitter space which eventually transits into the Hot Big Bang Expansion that we see.

NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY HOSTS REMAKE LEARNING LAB DAY FOR LOCAL STUDENTS Pittsburgh, Pa. - The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in collaboration with Remake Learning Days, a program sponsored by Allegheny County's Executive and the Allegheny County Housing Authority, hosted a lab day May 11, 2016, at NETL's South Park, Pa., site. Approximately 54 students from Woodland Hills Jr. / Sr. High Schools participated in NETL's event. They were

Energy The Dog Days of Summer - Capitalizing on the Pet Market The Dog Days of Summer - Capitalizing on the Pet Market Better Buildings Residential Network Peer Exchange Call Series: The Dog Days of Summer - Capitalizing on the Pet Market, call slides and discussion summary. Call Slides and Discussion Summary (2.17 MB) More Documents & Publications Leveraging Seasonal Opportunities for Marketing Energy Efficiency Hit the Road: Applying Lessons from National Campaigns to a Local Context

Historic Santa Fe Free-day! Participants are given a free-day Sunday during the school. Northern New Mexico is a treasure trove of historical sites, fun venues and out of the ordinary experiences! Possible free-day venues may include historic Santa Fe (the oldest capital city in the United States), mysterious Bandelier National Monument (an over 11,000 year old dwelling site with petroglyphs, and prehistoric cave dwellings), the beautiful Valles Caldera National Preserve (the gem of the Jemez

Seeking Volunteers for United Way Day of Caring JLab Seeking Volunteers for United Way Day of Caring The 2016 United Way Day of Caring for the Peninsula will be on Friday, September 9, from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Several health and human services organizations throughout Hampton Roads will benefit from the hard work and generous efforts of volunteers for numerous projects. Typical volunteer positions consist of community enhancement projects that encompass a myriad of activities, such as painting,

Day February 13 - Trends, Discovery, and Innovation in HPC NERSC User Day February 13 - Trends, Discovery, and Innovation in HPC February 10, 2013 by Francesca Verdier All members of the Berkeley Lab community, as well as those who have registered for the NERSC Users Group meeting, are welcome to join us for the NERSC User Day this February 13, 2013, in the Building 50 auditorium at Berkeley Lab. The theme of the User Day is Trends, Discovery, and Innovation in High Performance Computing: Trends

Media Advisory: 2015 SunShot Catalyst Prize Demo Day Media Advisory: 2015 SunShot Catalyst Prize Demo Day May 7, 2015 - 1:08pm Addthis Media Advisory: 2015 SunShot Catalyst Prize Demo Day SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the media are invited to attend the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative's Catalyst prize Demo Day in San Francisco on Thursday, May 14. The SunShot Catalyst prize program is designed to address many of the challenges preventing ubiquitous, affordable solar energy deployment

Soft Costs » SunShot Prize: The Race to 7-Day Solar SunShot Prize: The Race to 7-Day Solar SunShot Prize: The Race to 7-Day Solar Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative, the SunShot Prize: Race to 7-Day Solar aims to motivate local governments, communities, solar companies and electric utilities to collaborate towards improving the "going solar" experience from permit to plug-in for all Americans. This competition offers a total of $10 million in cash awards to

The Computerized Instrumented Residential Audit (CIRA), a micro-computer building energy analysis program developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, uses a monthly variable-base degree-day method to calculate heating and cooling loads. The method's unique feature is its ability to model thermostat setbacks and storage of solar gain. The program accomplishes this by dividing each day into two periods, ''average day'' (8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) and ''average night'' (8 p.m. to 8 a.m.), with different base temperatures. For each mode (heating or cooling) and for each period (day or night), the program reconstructs degree-days as a function of average monthly day or night temperature using three empirical coefficients specific to the location. A comparison is made between degree-days computed from hourly weather tapes and those predicted using this method. The root mean square error between predicted and actual degree days is typically between 3 and 12 degree-days per month. Tables of the coefficients are given for over 150 locations in the United States, computed from hourly dry-bulb temperatures on TRY and TMY tapes. Seasonal predictions of heating and cooling energy budgets using this method show good correspondence to the DOE-2 hourly simulation method.

Department of Energy Day: How the National Labs Keep Moving America Forward National Lab Day: How the National Labs Keep Moving America Forward September 17, 2014 - 5:13pm Addthis National Lab Day Kick Off 1 of 9 National Lab Day Kick Off Secretary Moniz welcomes directors from the National Labs and thanks Senators Durbin and Risch for their support for the National Lab system. | Photo by Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department. Panel Discussion 2 of 9 Panel Discussion From left: Clark Gellings, a

Children under the age of five constitute around 7% of the total U.S. population and represent a segment of the population, which is totally dependent on others for day-to-day activities. A significant proportion of this population spends time in some form of day care arrangement while their parents are away from home. Accounting for those children during emergencies is of high priority, which requires a broad understanding of the locations of such day care centers. As concentrations of at risk population, the spatial location of day care centers is critical for any type of emergency preparedness and response (EPR). However, until recently, the U.S. emergency preparedness and response community did not have access to a comprehensive spatial database of day care centers at the national scale. This paper describes an approach for the development of the first comprehensive spatial database of day care center locations throughout the USA utilizing a variety of data harvesting techniques to integrate information from widely disparate data sources followed by geolocating for spatial precision. In the context of disaster management, such spatially refined demographic databases hold tremendous potential for improving high resolution population distribution and dynamics models and databases.

Children under the age of five constitute around 7% of the total U.S. population and represent a segment of the population, which is totally dependent on others for day-to-day activities. A significant proportion of this population spends time in some form of day care arrangement while their parents are away from home. Accounting for those children during emergencies is of high priority, which requires a broad understanding of the locations of such day care centers. As concentrations of at risk population, the spatial location of day care centers is critical for any type of emergency preparedness and response (EPR). However,more » until recently, the U.S. emergency preparedness and response community did not have access to a comprehensive spatial database of day care centers at the national scale. This paper describes an approach for the development of the first comprehensive spatial database of day care center locations throughout the USA utilizing a variety of data harvesting techniques to integrate information from widely disparate data sources followed by geolocating for spatial precision. In the context of disaster management, such spatially refined demographic databases hold tremendous potential for improving high resolution population distribution and dynamics models and databases.« less

Children under the age of five constitute around 7% of the total U.S. population and represent a segment of the population, which is totally dependent on others for day-to-day activities. A significant proportion of this population spends time in some form of day care arrangement while their parents are away from home. Accounting for those children during emergencies is of high priority, which requires a broad understanding of the locations of such day care centers. As concentrations of at risk population, the spatial location of day care centers is critical for any type of emergency preparedness and response (EPR). However, until recently, the U.S. emergency preparedness and response community did not have access to a comprehensive spatial database of day care centers at the national scale. This paper describes an approach for the development of the first comprehensive spatial database of day care center locations throughout the USA utilizing a variety of data harvesting techniques to integrate information from widely disparate data sources followed by geolocating for spatial precision. In the context of disaster management, such spatially refined demographic databases hold tremendous potential for improving high resolution population distribution and dynamics models and databases.

Catalyst Demo Day 2015 Media Resources SunShot Catalyst Demo Day 2015 Media Resources SunShot Catalyst Demo Day 2015 Media Resources SunShot Catalyst is an open innovation program that aims to catalyze the rapid creation and development of products and solutions that address near-term challenges in the U.S. solar marketplace. Through a series of prize challenges, SunShot Catalyst makes it faster and easier for American innovators to launch cutting-edge solar companies, while tackling

Touts Clean Energy on Earth Day President Obama Touts Clean Energy on Earth Day April 29, 2009 - 11:04am Addthis 09_04_29_obama_wind_towers.jpg April 22 was Earth Day, and President Barack Obama chose to mark the occasion by delivering an in-depth speech on clean energy technologies and the response to climate change. The speech focused primarily on renewable energy and energy efficiency, and the president noted the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the growth of those

Energy Catalyst Teams to Unveil Software Products at Demo Day DOE Catalyst Teams to Unveil Software Products at Demo Day December 1, 2015 - 12:29pm Addthis Join an audience of thought leaders on December 10th at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia as the DOE showcases the next big startups in building energy efficiency and solar energy. Demo Day challenges 19 teams from around the country to pitch innovative buildings and solar-focused software products to an esteemed panel of investors,

Laboratory CNM Participates in 2014 NanoDays Outreach Event May 1, 2014 Tweet EmailPrint On April 14, 2014, the CNM held a Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE) NanoDays Event for 62 local fifth-grade science students and their teachers. CNM has a strong committment to activities that increase science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) literacy and enthusiasm among students, their families, and educators. The NanoDays kits were an excellent resource for this audience,

Plan of Action | Department of Energy Secretary Moniz on Adoption Day for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Statement from Secretary Moniz on Adoption Day for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action October 18, 2015 - 1:34pm Addthis NEWS MEDIA CONTACT (202) 586-4940 "Adoption Day marks an important milestone in ensuring that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful in nature. Today, as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) comes into effect, Iran will begin taking

Secretary Chu To Host Earth Day Live Chat TOMORROW: Secretary Chu To Host Earth Day Live Chat April 19, 2012 - 12:10pm Addthis WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday, April 20, 2012, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will host a livechat as part of the Energy Department's Earth Day celebrations to highlight the environmental and economic benefits of the Department's investments in clean energy. The live chat will be streamed on www.energy.gov tomorrow, and will feature questions from both in-person and

crude oil production expected to top 9 million barrels per day in December U.S. crude oil production is expected to continue to increase through next year, despite the outlook for lower crude oil prices. In its new short-term forecast, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said monthly average oil production is on track to surpass 9 million barrels per day in December for the first time since 1986 and then rise to an average 9.4 million barrels a day next year. Even though that's down about

Savannah River Site Liquid Waste Services | Department of Energy Notification of an Industry Day and One-on-One Sessions for Savannah River Site Liquid Waste Services DOE Releases Notification of an Industry Day and One-on-One Sessions for Savannah River Site Liquid Waste Services September 29, 2015 - 12:00pm Addthis Media Contact James Giusti, SRS, 803-952-7684 Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued notice of an Industry Day for Liquid Waste Services at the Savannah